Playing Minecraft can now get you into the University of Silicon Valley with a massive scholarship. However, to do so, they'll need to finish all of the game's Advancements.

The California-based university is giving students a $15,000 scholarship to join. The only condition is that one must have all 115+ Advancements in Minecraft unlocked.

Finishing them all can take upwards of 100 hours. So if you're looking to get in, better start the grind as soon as possible.

This is why the achievement lands in the university's Legendary Tier along with achievements in other games such as Terraria, Don't Starve Together, Bloodborne, Hollow Knight, and more.

The educational institute finds that certain games teach players systems mastery, survival optimization, team collaboration, and more.

There are tons of games you can excel at to claim the Max Achievement Scholarship. However, achievements are split into Mastery and Legendary Tiers, as seen on the university's website.

Mastery Tier achievements earn you $2,500 per term in scholarships, while the Legendary Tier yields you $5,000.

"Digital gaming environments cultivate the same competencies that drive innovation and leadership," the scholarship's philosophy section reads.

It further elaborates that the traits taught by video games are similar to the university's Polymathic Domains. These qualities include goal decomposition, systems thinking, resource optimization, and more.

The university focuses on various programs, including Game Design, Digital Art, Software Development, and more. However, it's not the first institute to leverage Minecraft's educational qualities in some way.

Minecraft: How a game helped pre-med students grow

Minecraft can be a brilliant and educational game. It's capable of teaching problem-solving, logical reasoning, and more. The game thereby improves students' cognitive functions in many ways.

For instance, Dr. Eric Kildebeck at The University of Texas, Dallas, leveraged the game's building mechanic to create a virtual hospital.

This method was used to give pre-med students exposure to realistic scenarios and settings they may encounter on the job.

“We built a virtual hospital in Minecraft, and the students can go in and make diagnostic decisions for patients, run lab tests, things like that,” Kildebeck said as per an article by Kera News.

"Until you're actually there, exposed to stuff, you don't really know what it is because you're not allowed to go into the hospital and care for patients.”

In many ways, the game has grown from a source of entertainment to a cultural phenomenon.

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Prit Chauhan